going to be a great success and we're grateful to the city for giving us the chance to be part of it. we put more chairs and tables in the park most days there's, there's ping pong. >> there are juggling clinics, concerts. please visit the union square comment patronize patisserie, come and have pastry and come to our eventsgood morning the ml come to order. welcome to the april 9th, 2025 meeting of the budget and finance committee. i am supervisor connie chang chair the committee i'm joined

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and then we will go to public comment. >> with that, mr. clerk, please call item number one. >> yes. item number one is a resolution approving a lease with the chinatown community children's center for approximately 6000ft2 her real property located in city hall and its grounds apartment had a base rent of $1 per year. authorizing the director of property upon receipt of approved permits for the construction the tenant improvements to the leased premises how to execute the lease on behalf of the city and county for an initial ten year term with 210 year options to renew. and authorizing the director of property to enter into any additions amendments her other modifications to the lease that do not materially increase the obligations nor liabilities of the city in order to effectuate the purposes of the lease or this resolution. >> madam chair, thank you. and today we have department of real estate here. >> good morning chair chen supervisor dorsey supervisor and engardio enrico penick director of real estate i'm

before you this morning seeking your positive recommendation for a lease agreement with the city as landlord in chinatown community children's center as tenant for the basement space at city hall for a child care center. >> by way of background the previous child care center operator at city hall marine daycare was unable to recover from the pandemic shutdown and the ground floor space as you may know, has been vacant since that time in 2021 the real estate division issued an rfp for a new provider to operate the child care facility in the building and the nonprofit chinatown community children's center or forces were selected as the most qualified. respondent forces will offer an income scale fee structure to its clients. the childcare operator has partnered with agencies such as the community alliance for

special education, the s.f. unified school district, san francisco early learning allotment to enroll low income families foresees will offer a convenient income based child care operation and access to supplemental educational resources. the terms of the agreement are fairly straightforward and are similar to what was offered to the prior provider. the lease provides forces with an initial ten year term with 210 year options to renew the rent is $1 per year which is a nominal rent commonly used in agreements between the city and nonprofit childcare centers in city owned and leased spaces. this is also the rent that was offered to the previous operator. the proposed resolution authorize execution of a lease

with tcc following their development of design documents and receipt of permits. the tenant improvements will be at the sole cost of forces. however the city will ensure that the mechanical electrical plumbing infrastructure of serving the building is in good working order and the city will also provide basic custodial and utilities services to the childcare operator. we have in wong the executive director and tiffany raise the program manager from forces available for any questions you may have of them. >> i also have what i believe to be non substantive changes that i would like to read into the record. these changes by and large are design to make clear that the board is approving the $1 lease because this service provides a

proper public benefit to the community. the first change is on page two line to the words help me grow golden gate regional center are deleted and the word is substituted in this place in line three the word rams are amiss is deleted online 11 still on page two the word last is deleted and the line would read with the addition of additional words whereas real estate issued a permit in february of 2024 still on page two, line 17 the word of is deleted and substituted with the word with the word centers is deleted and substituted with the word operator in line 20 the word and is deleted and substituted with the words now comma therefore be it lines

21 through 23 or deleted in their entirety. the new line 24 reads as follows whereas the board of supervisors find that leasing submarket rate space to cc at city hall offers a convenient in scale income scale option for child care and supplementary services furthering a public i a proper public purpose for the residents and city workers of the civic center community come and be it again on page three lines three through five or deleted in their entirety also on page three line 14 the word previous is deleted also on page three line 17 the words they determine are replaced with or deleted and replaced with the words are determined

on line 18 the word are r e is replaced with the words to be and that completes the recommended changes to the resolution. >> thank you. good morning nick bernard from the budget legislative analyst's office. item one the resolution that approves a lease of space at city hall to chinatown community children's center. the lease has an initial ten year term and 210 year options to extend and base rent of $1. we summarize the other lease terms on page three of our report. this space will be used for a child care operation with 436 children. the award of this lease was the result of a competitive process that took place in 2023 where this nonprofit was the top scoring proposal for this city under the lease is required to

provide janitorial services estimated at about $30,000 a year and then also pay for utilities and security services. we don't know the cost of those incremental increases to city hall operating costs as a result of this lease. the primary fiscal impact would be actually from the department of early childhood providing tuition subsidies to the families who put their children in this program. the program will be open to city hall employees as well as the general public. and if every family got a full tuition subsidy which are based on income, the cost would be about $1.2 million a year starting in 2027 when the operation starts. those with those costs would likely be funded by commercial rent revenues which are restricted to be used for

childcare operations. so it's not a general fund cost and not every family would likely get a full tuition subsidy. so that's really a maximum estimate. we also note as a policy consideration the market rate of this lease is probably around $200,000 a year. so that's the revenue that the city is giving up. we did recommend that this resolution if you want to approve a below market rate lease you have to make the changes proposed by the real estate division to conform to the administrative code requirements for a below market rate leases. >> happy to answer any other questions. >> thank you. i want to concur the recommendation and for consideration and not i mean for for real estate is to have that conversation with the department of early childhood education and with the c

and just having them consider about the commercial rent piece and using the bbc funding to be able to amend or pay for the commercial like rent rate at currently as one year $1 per year is generous and let's see let's see how this actually all goes. >> and i just wanted to say like let's have those conversation. i'm not i'm open to that conversation and i would hope that you are too. and and let's consider that i'm not mandating that in any way at this moment but just considering that it does take away from general fund and giving where we're at. so i would like to have those conversation and for that to be considered understood and we'll do thank you. >> i don't have any other questions. i am really pleased to see that you know chinatown community

center children's center is coming in here to manage this in my not my current office but my previous office i could look out and that was the really the playground for the kids and it's been really sad because i took office in the peak of the pandemic and seeing that being m.d was was was not a good site and so i'm really excited to see that it's coming to utilize been this space out being empty so i can i also appreciate for cs coming in to do that work and committed to spend that money to do that work and making sure that it's a great environment for kids. so i'm very excited to see more kids back in city hall. so thank you so much for your work on this. thank you. >> with that let's go to public comment on this item. >> yes, we're now opening public comment for this item number one, if we have any members of the public of joined us today who wish to address this committee.

>> good morning supervisors. my name is stephanie reyes and i am a program officer at the low income investment fund. i'm here to strongly support the lease agreement with the chinatown community children's center. this program is a nonprofit and has been providing child care in san francisco for decades. they were awarded the city's request for a proposal for the childcare space at city hall that had been vacant since the pandemic. since then they have conducted their due diligence needed to design a high quality childcare center. this center will serve both city workers and the broader community and will have a focus on care for infants and toddlers. reopening this early care center represents a strategic and symbolic step toward making san francisco a family friendly city where parents can both live and work. your approval will ensure

families receive the high quality childcare they deserve and strengthen our community. >> thank you. thank you much tiffany reyes and madam chair, that completes our queue seeing no more public commons public comment is now close. colleagues i would like to first make the motion to amend the legislation offer by department of real estate allowing the record in a roll call place and on that motion to accept the amendments as offered by the director of real estate. >> vice chair dorsey dorsey i remember in gado gado i church and i chant i we have three eyes the motion passes and then i would like to move to move this amended item to full board with recommendation and a roll call please and on that motion the forward to the full board with a positive recommendation as amended. vice chair dorsey dorsey i remember and gado and gado i chair can i can we have three eyes the motion passes mr.

clerk please call item number two. >> yes item number tuesday resolution adopting the city and county's ten year capital expenditure plan for fiscal years 2026 through 2030 five. >> pursuant to the administrative code. madam chair, thank you. and today we have brian straw here, our chief reliance officer and director. >> thank you. thank you very much chief resilience officer yes, but i'm happy to be your chief reliance officer as well. >> reliance resilience. yes. yes, yes. i think they go hand in hand. thank you. good morning. good. good morning. members of the committee. brian strong. i'm the chief resilience officer and oversee the office of resilience and capital planning. thank you very much for for having us here today. being able to come back and talk about the ten year capital plan we do this every two years. it's an important part of of

getting the entire city together. it's the one place where all of the city's infrastructure is contained and where we talk about strategies. we're talk about how we're going to finance things. we talk about what we are not able to finance as well. we're one of the few cities that has a constrained capital plan so with that i'll walk through some of the various programs and hopefully set aside some time at the end for questions. but if something comes up that you don't understand feel free to interrupt me. so we'll be covering, you know, the capital budget which we're sort of moving forward with right now and then some of the debt programs those are primarily the ones that impact general fund departments which is where usually the focus of our of our capital plan is. so just to mention some of the accomplishments and i'll try to run through these relatively quickly. you know a lot of affordable housing work starting in 2015 affordable housing was moved

into the capital plan. so it's part of our our different programs and you can see that we've invested, you know, a lot seven this is really just looking back over the past two years and we've you know started construction on 1042 units made investments of $378 million and that's leveraged over $700 million in other funding. we've done a lot of work on stabilizing households. we did work out at treasure island of course the star court project is was constructed and completed in may. that is the second of 100% affordable housing project on treasure island. so a lot of work going in that area. certainly an economic development. similarly we completed the china basin which is a new five acre park which is you know that part of the city is really booming if people haven't been out there and that's going to provide really important recreational space, you know

that that follows up with mission bay. you know, again, 19 acres of 19 open space parcels over 29 acres going back to treasure island. we've done all the phase one improvements so most of the work on yerba buena island in terms of street infrastructure and those are completed i know there are still a few roads to to finish and then we secured state funding for yosemite slew so we're not trying to forget about some of those neighborhoods out in the southeast portion of the city where we are seeing, you know, potential for floods and those those types of things going forward in general government you know, a lot of work on broadband. we started this program 5 or 6 years ago where we're supporting affordable housing projects by providing broadband to them so we've connected again this is just in the past two years 17,000 units, 143

affordable housing sites with free broadband we've completed in addition a lot of renewal projects including the elevators thankfully and city hall. i think there's still some work to go but we have made those investments. we've also done, you know, a cooling tower and one south venice which has made a big difference for a lot of our employees that are there as well. and then just jumping into health and human services and some of the work that's going on in that area you know that prop b we were thankfully able to get a lot of support from the voters of san francisco and we are getting ready to move forward on some of those projects including the chinatown health center and and and a number of other health related and and then of course street and downtown recovery related projects as well. so we've also we're happy you

know ucsf completed their research building which is adjacent to the former hospital building five on the campus there. so that investment is still going forward. the investment in the partnership with ucsf is still very strong and that's a state of the art facility that is recently opened there. we've done a lot of again critical rehabilitation work and we've acquired i have to say this is mostly with public health and with real estate reit as heard from 691 units eight buildings with 691 units and created and then rehabbed another 362 units and we'll be commencing construction on 145 new units as well of permanent supportive housing. so again, making those investments in an area that we know is critical and then almost to the end of these we're maintaining a lot of streets. we've continued to move forward with keeping a pavement

condition index score of 75 which is important in terms of the condition of the streets and in terms of saving money in the future by not having to completely redo a street. so we're maintaining it at a at a good level of condition. we've completed several water projects and this is mostly through the puc out at our out at harry tracy water treatment plant but throughout the system and we've done some work in terms of energizing the corridor and some of those things out. it pier 70 mission rock treasure and of course treasure island and yerba one island as well public safety a number of different projects. we have completed the schematic design for the new training fire training facility which will enable them to move off of treasure island. we completed the renovation of the 911 call center again critical facility within one of the critical most critical facilities i would say that the city has and this is enabled us to not only modernize it but expand the expand it so we're able to have more call operators on duty on a regular

basis, a number of parks we have completed, you know, throughout the city this includes a lot on the on the east side but also throughout. >> so you know it's free park out at no we valley i mean out so yeah in way valley completing the restroom which is certainly made a lot of news some arts debris removal and some of those things for our art facilities and of course restoring some of our monuments has always been a struggle to restore some of the monuments throughout the city. but we're able to do a lot of work on mechanics which is in the picture here and lot fountain and finally i should also mention that we completed phase two of india basin waterfront park. that's the picture that you see in the bottom and that is a really huge accomplishment out at 900 and assets. if you haven't been out there i recommend you go see it.

it's a it's a really fantastic transformation of that space and of course with transportation you know the muni metro third line seems like it was a long time ago but that is completed and up and running. we've been growing the bike network harvey milk terminal if you've been over to sfo you can see the picture there in the bottom it's it's completed and it's it's an amazing space as well so a lot of work in those areas looking forward you know we have for the first time eclipsed the $50 billion mark with this ten year capital plan so it's at $52 billion a lot of the investments are coming from enterprise and external agencies as you can see on this this graphic here again just remind people external agencies are like the school district and they just recently passed a close $2 billion bond. it includes city college. it includes, you know, bart and some of those other organizations that are within

the city's government structure but certainly are producing infrastructure that has an impact on us. also redevelopment or office of oci is also in that framework and then enterprise departments such as our our port you see airport and airport of course are both doing the lion's share of infrastructure investments which is no surprise but the mta will also be making some big, big investments as well. so with that i just want to talk a little bit about what what's happened over time. so we've been doing this capital planning since 2005 but if you look back the previous ten years you can see the growth that's been happening of again mentioning that we went from about 32 billion now up to 50 over 50 well 52 billion so that represents about 60% increase or about 5.3% annually and you can see that is really being driven by the enterprise agencies and the orange ish

and the external agencies and the yellow the general fund agencies are not doing as well. we've seen growth of 30% which is actually not really it's barely keeping up with inflation and definitely not keeping up with construction cost inflation. so that's about 2.7% annually and that's one of the struggles that we're seeing. it's just that we're having a difficult time keeping our our assets and keeping things in a state of good repair so that they're they're functioning well and so they don't cost us more money in the future. i'll get back to that a little in a minute just to show you in our proposed pay as you go program we have a methodology for how we allocate dollars. we have things that are fixed and this is part of the policies and how we constrain our funding. we have things that are fixed that we have agreed as a city and as a capital planning committee or that we're recommending as critical like aids facilities things in the public right of way. i talked about maintaining our street resurfacing pavement condition and for 75 we also have some set asides in there there's a recreation and parks

set aside that they have and they've also committed to $50 million a year to take care of their infrastructure and then we have a street tree program where where we are required to take care of the street trees that are on our property that are in the right of way the variable allocation. >> so after we pay off those and that's would be the first big box at $1.2 million at 1.2 billion i'm sorry 1217 million. we get to the variable allocations and that's where we're taking care of our facilities and we're taking care of some of the right of way infrastructure renewals around stairs, ways, bridges, pedestrian pathways those types of things plazas so taking care of our facilities and our critical infrastructure we end up with about 1.2 billion sorry $1.4 billion to take care of those assets and what that looks like in terms of the ten year capital plan is is that we're able to fund some things that what we at what we would

say you know at 100% or what we say would be a very healthy level like routine maintenance in ada that's shown in the far the fa on this slide if you look to the far right you can see percent funded but the struggles that we have are going to be with with the enhancements so the enhancement programs we're trying to improve things where we're trying to comply with seismic requirements ada requirements or developing new programs those those are struggling and we really rely on our jail bond program and other bonds to try to pay for those things where it's possible i would also just point to at the bottom you can see the facility renewals and right of way renewals at 67%. so not again not at 100% but not a bad level if we're able to keep up the funding and the challenge i think there on this next slide sort of shows what happens but the challenge is going to be can we keep up that level of funding that's recommended in the capital plan so this this sort of shows our backlog and what's happening to

the backlog going forward. you can see the level of commitment at the bottom is just the amount that's going to the facility pay as you go program. so it's not everything it's not the back park piece. it's it's doesn't even include some of the street pieces so that that shows if we're able to commit that level of funding then we will be able to bring the backlog down from what is a historic high at $1 billion. if we look back over time on this slide kind of shows that we had a period where we're able to to fund things pretty at a pretty healthy level before covid. covid definitely had a big impact on our budgets and what's happened is that lack of funding along with i think just a number of assets that are having a number of buildings and facilities that are having key assets that are coming that are that are requiring investment have bumped up our facilities backlog to $1 billion. so that is a been a

considerable concern and how can we address it just to show you the slide on the right kind of the two the two hatch lines, the one that's going down matches the previous one i showed you which is if we are able to stay within our capital plan recommendations if we're not or if we stay with our status quo, then you're going to see the dash line where our where our backlog will continue to rise and potentially get up as high as $1.4 billion by 2015 . so i mentioned the geo bond program and its importance to the city. i think it covers about 35% of the capital cost for general fund buildings that we've also you know, use it to to address some of the renewal needs where we've had to but this this slide sort of goes back to 2008 and shows the kind of remarkable amount of of investment that the city has made. so $6.5 billion is is huge for a city of our size.

the amount that we put into affordable housing at 1.4 billion absolutely surpasses on a per capita basis and i think any other city in the continental us far and away i know there's still a lot of challenges there but the city should should feel good about the amount of investments that we've been making and we've definitely have done a lot you know around transportation as well. we're looking forward to another transportation bond and then our other critical facilities so that said, the amount of investment that we've made in the past ten years or so has limited the amount of geo bond capacity going forward. so unless we begin to have discussions around changing our capacity constraint which i will get to in a minute what that means where we're trending towards smaller bonds right the last bond we just passed was $390 million. all of these bonds here are smaller than than that prop b bond was what we're looking at

transportation in 2026 and then we will be looking at waterfront safety and climate related improvements mostly to our own city buildings. but it could it could be more broad than that in terms of 2028. this shows the capacity constraint that we're under so though that previous slide that i showed of the $6.5 billion or so that is represented in the in the whitish or light gray and the darker gray bars on this graph those have already been either issued or committed. the ones that have colors are the ones that i just present on the previous slide that show the future bonds coming forward. you can see that we are right up against our 2006 tax constraint that we established . this enables us to say that we are not increasing property tax rates, that we're staying within a constrained number. this has helped us with our rating agencies and and certainly helps us with people

at the ballot box and other folks who are concerned that the city is going beyond its means. >> finally, i just quickly mention the other type of debt that we issue. we actually see two other types of debt. one is revenue bonds that enterprise agencies do that we're not talking about here. but the other one is what we call certificates of participation. so these are revenue bonds against the general fund. they essentially serve as a as a as a set aside for the general fund because you will not be able to attach those dollars for 20 to 30 years depending on the length of debt. >> and we've spent considerable a couple of years ago we we actually used some of our short term copy money to cover some additional affordable housing and are out for around 112 million. and then we started to also invest some money into treasure island infrastructure. a lot of that was to enable affordable housing to move forward so that is eaten away at our capacity. we're moving forward with a couple key projects.

one is this relocation of the human service agency headquarters that would be getting them out of 170 otis which is one of our seismically least safe buildings i would say. and the hope is that they will be out in a year or so of that building. >> half of the folks there will be going to lease space and the other half will be going to a new space in the bayview which will put them much closer to the clients that they're serving. so with that i know i've covered oh and this this sort of shows the same constraint that we have for the gabon program. we have a similar constraint for cops. we can only issue up to 3 to 3.25% of general fund discretionary revenue. so that's the only amount of revenue we want to have available to pay down debt service. we work closely with the office of public finance to stay within that constraint and that's what this this graph is showing here. so with that i'm happy to take any questions. thank you. i want to understand the really

the authorized but unused bond dollars. what hour day or if you can give a summary of what they are and really the reason why they're just where they're just kind of sitting there and not being use yeah i mean generally these you know when we put together these bond programs the expectation is that they're not going to be able to spend all the money in one year or two years. so generally we're spreading the projects out and will take anywhere from 5 to 6 seven years for for them to spend down those funds. so that's that's the bulk of that money that's there is showing that you know, again you're for the like the fire training facility it would be an example we've already spent probably you know $10 million or something to do to get through the designs and all of those things and now we're going to need to do the first phase of construction and they'll be a second phase of construction and maybe even a third or fourth phase. i mean that's a 200 plus million dollar project.

so that's that's fairly typical and this is something that gets discussed at the citizen general bond obligation oversight committee. they look at it and it also gets discussed at the capital planning committee where we have the jail bond programs come back on an annual basis and certainly whenever there's sort of key issues like around issuing more debt or those types of things, we'll say what's going on with your current bond spending? yeah, there are some bonds i would just say where where we didn't have as much information we didn't have environmental review or some of those things completed. so those that means you got to spend some time doing that early planning because we don't have enough money for early planning. that's what i would say. so sometimes the g.o. bonds go to early planning which means it takes longer to spend the money which is not preferable because we really want to see the money turned over quickly, right? that's the idea. we usually issue 20 year bonds so that the money turns over quickly and it can be reused for the next set of projects. >> know so for the am you mean

i have to answer for today but what i will love to learn more about is the unlike the authorized but unused anything that is more than ten years like to learn the dollar amount what they are you know it just if you're sitting there for like since 2000 if i don't know 2000 and something yeah and you're not using it is seems to me though that i like to learn more about why so let's let's put it this way if there are dollar amount that you know it's been a while and it just really don't seem like it's happening what do we do? like what would they just sit but is there a mechanism to say or a threshold our process to say hey, you know, maybe this is not going to happen and we need to figure out and reprioritize those dollars ? yeah, i mean there are certainly some different

mechanisms that can happen. i mean the first obligation is to what's in the bond ordinance that went before the voters, right? that was submitted and then that the voters agreed to. so that is the first obligation clearly and it doesn't mean that so often often there could be projects that get supplemented. i mean sometimes projects are waiting because there was not enough money and so they're waiting for another bond to come along or for private funding to come into place or something like that. so there are those situations where where we are tracking them and very intentionally saying okay, this money's being reserved but it's going to be spent when this happens that the other mechanism that we had you know, there was a bond for 300 plus million dollars to do help affordable housing help afford it you know, help do seismic retrofits that was actually reauthorized. i want to say in 2016 or so and dedicated to affordable housing. so that's another mechanism that can happen. things can be brought back up through legislation and then it

would go back before the voters to expand the use of how those funds can be used. >> we don't see that happen that often in the way that we've set up the programs and i think the way we've used our jail bonds that it's pretty rare that we're seeing projects that have not spent their money in ten years. you know it would only in most situations it's going to be a fairly small amount, right? it's amount that they haven't closed out of their they're trying to finish there may be a couple i could be wrong that we can get back to you on whether there are some other ones in there that are of larger amounts but but typically we've been pretty good about getting those dollars spent great though just like to learn more about this whole list of how great dark gray of yeah yeah authorize but unused your bonds and help us understand what they are and my assumption is for the existing and i was sensing geo bonds is basically we just have to pay back

and and oh yeah right and that's our paying back capacity there. >> oh yeah yeah yeah right yeah that's our obligation. yeah and help me understand though with that are there ways well i don't think i mean i my assumption is is really parcel tax and everything that we're collecting that is really determining our capacity of paying back these bond dollars. is that correct? >> is that correct understanding your personal tax or yeah, just kind of like how do we repay back our bonds or how do we so g.o. bonds are so go bonds are added so we are part of everyone's property tax rate so we pay there's 1% that goes to the county and there's an ad valorem rate of 0.1 4% or so that we have and that goes to paying back the debt service on general obligation bonds and that's one of the reasons why it's a very attractive source and other jurisdictions use it much more than we do

especially back east where they don't have they don't have to even get voter support to use it places like new york, new york city and florida and so so anyway that that so that that source comes through the property tax bills that people are paying it gets passed from one property you know so it's it's secure it's very secure we are not you when you're talking about parcel taxes or or those types of things or other revenue generated those are tip those would be through our certificates and participation for general fund or revenue bonds for for enterprise agencies and that that's what's paying down the debt service on those. >> yeah and how do we is there any mechanism that the city can do to accelerate retiring these debts? >> um i mean i'm happy to have the public finance but i do think there are i mean we are definitely refinancing when there are opportunities to refinance. so that's one way that you can

do it if you see that that you have a situation where you can get a better interest rate or those types of things or you can consolidate debt and i don't want to speak for the office of public finance but they do that regularly evaluate that they work with financial advisors. >> they do that on a regular basis. >> i don't know that there's a mechanism that we could increase people's property tax rates to to pay down deoband debt more quickly. i, i don't think that's possible but again i'm not i'm not the expert on this so no problem i, i, i mean we could identify other funds which means you wouldn't need the bonds and then you could potentially use the bonds for something else. >> but yeah i think that today clearly we are approving this capital plan. i have no doubt i am bringing you those questions in a sense where you know this is probably i don't know the first time i'm

seeing the slides about capacity we have like conversation about where are we as should we you know just blow up the cab or have a way we want to do this because this is a self imposed cab, you know or so impose like constrain and we have the authority to exercise that. i think that in order to for us to really have those conversation that i would require i would like to have you know information on authorize but unused dollars why aren't they actually it's a quite a bit of them. we authorize them but they're unused. yeah. let's have a discussion with the office of public finance under the comptroller was having a conversation about what are the mechanism to to do that to reauthorize some of these unused or how do we shift this existing authorize and use if there's a such thing that we could do and and of course with

the purpose of basically reprioritizing all capital projects. yeah, let's have a conversation about other other mechanism that could accelerate retiring this debt that is within the authority of the city you know is that policy changes what that would be because clearly we also see pay as you go is an issue and that we need to actually invest in that and yet here we are we're hitting i don't want to say we are hitting a wall but we kind of are in a sense where there's a lot of competing interest for infrastructure teacher but you know and pay as you go paving roads never it's never as great as parks or library when you present them before the voters there they're not as interested i think you know when you have to pass a bond measure definitely we have found that

to be consistent. >> yeah. and i think most importantly is to for city that remain discipline and committed to most importantly i think it's too committed to the process of capital planning and committed to those dollars and that's on you that's really on the city and that's including the elected both the administration and the legislative branch to be committed to the dollars that really goes to according to plan and not we feel like we just want to throw something into the pot and say because we think this is the for political reasoning and not for actual capital planning. >> so with that thank you so much for your presentation. >> i don't see any other name on the roster at this moment. >> let's go to public comment on this item. yes right now opening public comment for anybody who have joined us today who wish to address this committee regarding this item number two . >> good morning supervisors.

my name is joni eisen, member of as of climate emergency or coalition citizens climate lobby and san francisco tomorrow so in 2023 the supervisors unanimously endorsed the berkeley center for law energy and the environment recommendation that the office of resilience and capital planning put an emissions reducing climate bond into the queue for near-term inclusion on the ballot. but no such climate bond was proposed for 2024 nor does the current draft ten year bonds schedule includes such a thing resilience and adaptation to the devastations of climate change are necessary but there's no bond or other large funding mechanism near-term or otherwise to seriously address emissions reductions. the city's climate action plan details numerous strategies and actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. but that vision can't be realized without sustained revenue streams to generate the amount of money needed to implement the climate action plan unless we invest now

in the prevention of climate change caused catastrophes our very future physical, mental, emotional and economic health and well-being are in peril. the feds are giving the fossil fuel industry carte blanche cities and states absolutely have to lead the way here and now. >> so please, i'm asking you not to approve this ten year capital plan unless it includes a climate bond that actually reduces greenhouse gas emissions and one more thing the climate action plan was produced by s.f. environment department, a savvy and yet incredibly sfe is not part of the capital planning committee. this is a voice that must be heard directly. otherwise i'm afraid climate change mitigation will continue to be overlooked again today. do not approve this capital plan without a real climate bond. >> thank you. thank you joni eisen. next speaker my name is angle. >> i'm with the san francisco climate emergency coalition and 350 san francisco.

i want to call your attention to the written public comments submitted to your agenda. first there's a letter signed by 26 san francisco organizations to the capital planning committee asking for a bond to address the climate crisis. then there are 37 individuals who sent letters asking for a bond measure for climate. please note we had only 24 hours to elect to collect those individual signatures. i think that indicates their support for climate bond and concern about the lack of proper funding to address climate. >> i must say there's a lot to be proud of in the accomplishments of capital planning in what we just saw. >> but let's think as we build infrastructure if we do not address climate, all of that infrastructure will be degraded much more quickly by the devastating effects of climate change. so you're building on one hand

and you're not paying attention to the fact that we have to push back on climate change, we have to lower our emissions so there's something missing from the capital plan and sandwiched asco has not taken responsibility for funding its own climate plan. >> we elect you to figure it out to think creatively about how to meet the very daunting challenges facing san francisco climate change being no doubt the most destructive joanie talked about the clear report there's plenty of suggestions in there for how to raise funds. 2024 was the first year in which global temperatures exceeded 1.5°c which is the paris accords target. >> we need to have a bond measure that reduces our emissions as soon as possible but we also need to make sure that every bond measure includes emissions reduction

provisions because time has expired. >> thank you elaine angle next speaker good morning supervisors. my name is rosemary gerrard. i'm a citizen of this beautiful city in the soma district. >> i want to thank you for allowing me to speak. i hope you will consider revising the current plan to include a climate bond just because the truth is ignored. it doesn't mean it isn't true. climate change is true. it is happening. fossil fuels are the cause. 7% of greenhouse gases are coming from transportation and heating over 50% of our youth from age 6 to 22 are fearful of their future due to climate crisis. >> i applaud the city and county for mitigation

planning but amped up tation is reactive. >> let's be proactive with the climate bond. >> keep in mind i do appreciate the financial burden the city carries but be aware that the federal government the inflation reduction act blew up the incentives and funding for heating and public transportation. california and the city and county of san cisco can show the way the bond dollars will help us with enhancing public transportation, getting people out of their cars, getting electrification and all of the housing. i pledge you to consider these things. thank you and thank you, rosemary. our next speaker. >> good morning. my name is dr. robert gould. i'm a retired kaiser physician

and since 2012 i've been working as a professor at ucsf program on reproductive health and environment. today i'm speaking for san francisco bay physicians for social responsibility. i'm president and representing hundreds of physicians and other health professionals in san francisco and throughout the bay area including ucsf, kaiser and other health centers in san francisco. we urge the committee to support greenhouse gas reduction plans in every city bond and to dedicate a bond specifically to fund greenhouse gas reduction in san francisco . as a physician i know firsthand that reducing air pollution caused by burning fossil fuels in our buildings and transportation can have huge impacts not just on our climate but also on the health of our communities. many people think that foggy, windy san francisco has clean air but the american lung association ranks the bay area's air as the fifth worst in the country with bayview hunters point being designated

having some of the worst air pollution in the state poor air quality contributes greatly not only to respiratory issues such as asthma but also to cardiovascular and neurological diseases. children and elders are more vulnerable. and recent studies linked poor air to increased risk of dementia as well. san francisco's environmental justice communities suffer compounded health burdens caused by a complex web of reasons which include the impacts of historical housing discrimination which we understand as red lining poor regulation of local polluting industries and persistent disinvest movement and communities all contribute to poor air quality and harm health. san francisco capital investments in electrification through every bond and specific climate bond would not only help to save our planet but will also improve health health equity, reduce health costs and save lives. we urge you to support these initiatives. >> thank you for the time. thank you much dr. robert gold . >> thanks, speaker.

good morning. my name is julie lindo. i'm the director of communications and health professional engagement at san francisco bay physicians for social responsibility representing the health professionals that dr. bob gold just mentioned. i'm also representing san francisco climate emergency coalition. >> i'm impressed by the capital accomplishments i must say. but it's just as we need to fix potholes so that we don't end up paying more later, we need to implement more climate mitigation so that we're not paying way more later in health and by destruction of our coast alliance. i'm here to support climate mitigation. i'm here to ask you to support climate mitigation in every city bond and to reject this plan and also to add a specific climate bond. doing so would make san francisco and all of you not just local leaders but leaders in our country and the world by setting a good example as you know, 44% of our greenhouse

gases gases are from our buildings and those sorry and we know that the air pollution from those buildings is a huge health burden on our it's especially on our vulnerable populations. so in short, the climate crisis is a public health crisis i want to leave you with with a vision a positive vision because i know it's an enormous task to electrify our city buildings. but i'd like to but if you imagine that every neighborhood in our city has a park community center that's electrified and that those community centers can then become education centers for our residents to learn how to electrify that would serve as an amazing model not just for the for the entire country and the world. >> so please reject the current ten year bond schedule and revise it to include a bond that addresses the climate crisis. now more than ever our country needs san francisco to set an example.

thank you and thank you my children and madam chair, that completes our q thank you. seeing no more public commons public comment it's now close. >> that does begs the question ,sir strong just quickly i believe that there the makeup of the capital planning committee including a few city departments like permanent public works i believe and like even rec park or as a p c and then i believe our board president also sits on it along with city administrator chu. >> could you help me understand why isn't the department of environment is part of the planning committee so there are a number of departments that are obviously not on the capital planning committee that have expressed interest in being on the committee. what i can tell you is that it

is not the the department that receives the most funding by the way is the department of public health. they're not on the capital planning committee. we do not. we have also heard from some of the public safety agencies. they're not on the capital planning committee. the idea was when the legislation was originally put together that specified membership was that it would be the five departments that have the authority when i say 5 or 6 departments that have the authority to do construction work. so that's the chapter well, chapter six departments exactly. that's exactly right. chapter six departments as their enterprise departments including public works rec park was added because they received chapter six authority i think in 2002 before we actually before the capital plan was put into existence the other members on the committee represent the executive and legislative branch and and have key functions around planning and those types of things. so so that's the makeup of the

committee. i would also if you don't mind me just sort of commenting very quickly that we are electrifying all of the rec centers and i think you guys may be aware of this. we are doing every every project that we have in its capital plan that's receiving funding where they are replacing or upgrading their hvac or they're doing other work on their buildings is moving toward electrification that is part of a requirement in chapter seven of the code that was sort of came out of the climate action plan. so i guess i just want to make sure that that is clear. the city is moving in. this tends to focus more on our infrastructure but is moving in that direction and certainly when we talk about the the bond dollars that have been spent certainly funds that go toward affordable housing we think are obviously critical for climate funds that go toward transportation are certainly

critical toward climate. we are trying to move away from car trips. so so i do want to emphasize that those things are happening and that we are contemplating as i mentioned in march 2028 there is a climate component significant climate component to the waterfront safety bond. so thank you. i think the question also is, you know, for the department of environment to be part of a both in not just about advocating for the climate action plan implementation but also create a a role of somewhat of an oversight and accountability to make sure that when we move forward with these capital plan or projects that they are part of i mean i think that there's some i'd like you know, different kind of environmental like degree of construction and design to rise

to that. >> but and there is a green building task force it's run by the department of environment that does review that does review these projects. they construction projects or like i said any of the the electrical so they do play a role in in the development of the projects and as the projects move forward, how do they do that like the green building taskforce, what does it make up of? >> and it's made up and i'm not an expert on this but it's made up of several different departments and they meet regularly and they review projects that are put forward in terms of whether or not they are meeting the electrical standards in chapter seven of the code. so if i have a fire station is going to have to change some of their equipment and there they want to move to electric, they need to comply if they don't

comply then they need to go to this committee and ask for for an exemption so they would rule on exemptions as well. >> so got it. okay. so they actually have the authority to do exams? yep. yep. and that is that is written into the code. >> okay. and then when we say the code do you mean the environmental code or are we chapter seven in the ministry of code i mean as you call cop. thank you. yes i don't see any name on the roster. >> colleagues, i just like to see your thoughts are i mean i'm inclined to support this capital plan today with the understanding that i think there's more to come in discussion. i am interested in learning more about both the green building taskforce but also the potential of adding department of environment into the capital planning committee. but these are going to be future legislation and then requires more discussion. it will not be able to be done today. >> vice chair dorsey thank you chair and i agree with your

points and the one other thing that i would say about this as we are contemplating many of the priorities that our city is going to be facing in terms of just resilience impera tives you know i represent represented district when i met with mr. strong to talk about some of the issues in my district which is that disproportionate seismic risk. i also represent the coastal neighborhoods that i have a lot of concerns about the climate. >> i think there is also on top of that a level of uncertainty that is just with our relationship with the federal partners that we've never seen before in our lifetime. so i think this is an open question. i like chair chan and in going to support this but i think let's keep talking and let's keep evaluating what our needs are given support or not from the federal government on a lot of the things that we need to be doing.

thank you. i also think that clearly we can always come back in a man which is not great and not pleasing to to possibly to to mr. strong and or the committee. but i think that we will be certain to continue to work together on this. no doubt there will be more conversation to come. and so with that i would like to move this item to a full board with recommendation and the roll call please. >> and on that motion to forward this resolution to the full board of the positive recommendation. vice chair dorsey dorsey i remember engardio and engardio i church can i can i we have three eyes the motion passes and that mr. clerk could you please call item three and four together. >> yes items three and four how to number three is a resolution approving authorizing the general manager of the public utilities commission to execute amendment number one to a

professional services agreement for construction management services for the east bay region with cpm slash c and proposed joint venture increasing the not to exceed amount by 25 million for a total not to exceed amount of 34 million and increasing the contract duration by two years from june 3rd 2028 for a total contract duration of nine years starting june 4th 2021 through june 3rd 2032 pursuant to the charter and item number four is a resolution approving and authorizing the general manager of the puc to execute amendment number one to a professional services agreement for specialized and technical as needed services for operations and maintenance support would stantec slash j h c j v m.d. j v accom w r e j v and lee incorporated increasing each contract by 5.5 million each with a new not to exceed amount of 13 million for a total of 52 million across all

four contracts effective upon approval of this resolution and with no change to the terms or duration for the period of august 29th 2023 through august 29th 2028 pursuant to the charter. >> madam chair, thank you and let's go one item at a time with you and then we're going to be out a report and then come back. good morning. my name is james sakai with the sfp construction management bureau. i am here today to request approval of amendment number one to contract pro one for a construction management services for the east bay region. >> this slide shows a map of the puc's regional water system where the east bay region highlighted in the box near the middle of the boxes the small valley water treatment plant which treats water from san

antonio reservoir and calaveras reservoir which is where most of the work supported by this contract is located. >> next the pro 148 contract was approved for award by the qc commission resolution 2237 in december of 2020. the contractor is cpm siem pro's joint venture. the contract amount is 9 million and the contract duration is seven years and tpi was in june 2021 and the contract expires in june of 2028. the primary role of the consultant is to provide construction management services for the east bay region specifically for three projects the alameda creek recapture and all valley water treatment plant osage nation and central valley water treatment plant short term improvements. this request is to amend the contract by 25,000,002 years

for a total contract amount of 34 million and a total contract duration of nine years. >> this table summarizes the three projects included in this contract with current contract budget amounts requested additional amounts under this amendment and proposed final budget amounts. an additional $18.6 million is being requested to complete the osage nation project and an additional 6.4 million is being requested to complete the short term improvements project for a total additional request of 25 million and a total revised contract amount of 34 million. >> the reason why this amendment is needed is because since the rfp for this contract was advertised in december of 2019, significant increases in scope cost and duration of

all three projects have occurred. this table shows the change in construction cost and duration from 2020 to 2025 for all three projects and the reason why construction cost and duration are shown here is because construction management costs closely correlate with those two factors. >> for the alameda creek recapture project, an additional 1.6 million was required to complete the project due to additional staffing needs as well as an increase in project duration from one year five months to two years. >> the osage nation project increased from an estimated $85 million construction cost in 2020 to an actual construction contract amount of 235 million after bids were received and the contract was awarded. the construction duration increased from two years six months to four years two

months. in 2020 the estimated construction start date was november 2022 but actual a.p. for the project was september of 2024. this two year delay to the start of construction is the reason for the request to extend pro and for a by an additional two years. the two year delay resulted in escalation costs and in addition additional consultant staff were required to work on the project because originally planned city staff were no longer available. the short term improvements project increased from an estimated 33 million construction costs to an actual construction contract amount of 45 million after bids were received and the contract was awarded. the construction duration increased from one year six months to a construction contract duration of three years six months. in 2020 the estimated construction start date was january of 2023 and estimated

a.p. for construction is july of this year, resulting in additional escalation costs . next this slide shows the project budget increases since 2020. alameda creek recapture is shown in blue ocean nation is shown in orange and short term improvements as shown in gray. on the left side shows the overall project budget of 219 million and the pro and for a contract amount of 9,000,000 in 2020. on the right side is the current overall project budget of 454 million with the requested new amount for pro and 40 a of 34 million next. this slide shows the proposed amendment number one increase in context of the overall project budgets for all three projects combined.

the construction contracts are shown in blue. the design concept contracts are shown in gray. the current pro for a contract is shown in yellow and the proposed amendment is shown in green. other contingencies and soft costs are shown in orange. i would like to point out that the 34 million requested revised pro and 14 amount is approximately 11% of the total construction contract amount. construction management proposals have recently been coming in in the range of 19 to 25% of construction costs. so the city is getting good value from utilizing this contract to provide construction management services for these contracts. >> this last slide shows construction photos of the osage nation project which is currently in progress. >> and with that i'm happy to answer any questions. thank you.

>> item three is a resolution that approves an amendment to the contract between p u c and kpmg's c pros which is a joint venture of brown and caldwell and other professional service firms. the amendment increases the contract value from 9 to $34 million and extends the term from june 2028 to june 2030. we detailed the budget on page 12 of our report and as we discussed in our report, the primary driver of the increase in the contract value is the extension of the underlying construction projects. the expansion of their scope and the associated delays and escalation of costs. although there's a $9 million contract only about $7 million has been spent so they are they've underspent the existing contract.

it's not like they've blown through the entire budget and as was mentioned by the department, this is a relatively low percentage of contract construction management costs relative to other projects in their portfolio. so we recommend approval of item three. >> thank you. let's continue to presentation for item four. >> so good morning chair chan vice chair dorsey and supervisor and garcia i'm margaret hampered and i'm the division manager for water and power with the p c and i'm

based in moccasin california. >> so i thought i'd give you a little background first. next slide please about our contract. >> the contract was originally awarded on june 13th, 2023 by the puc commission. there are four contracts each with a not to exceed amount of 7.5 million and a duration of five years. >> the contract provides water services, power services and operations support services . >> next slide before we jump in to how we're using the contract, i thought i'd tell you a little bit about ourselves. >> we are the division responsible for operations and maintenance of the hashi water and power project. we roughly have about $15 billion of assets in the ground and they extend from hetchy on the right hand corner of this map all the way down to newark

on the sort of in the center of that graph near the bay. >> so the red oval basically shows our water assets and the blue oval is our power assets. >> now i want to tell you these assets provide a lot. we provide the majority of the water supply for 2.7 million san francisco and regional water customers and we generate 100% greenhouse gas free electricity for municipal customers in san francisco. >> next slide please. okay. i thought it would also be. so what we're here today is we are asking for an increase in these contracts by 5.5 million for a not to exceed amount of 13 million per contract. >> and we're not requesting any change in duration. >> next slide. >> so i thought be interesting to see how we're actually using

these contracts and how it supports our operations. >> what we did with ferc so far we have opened up 58 task orders under these four contracts. >> and this pie chart shows where we're using these funds. and the largest section of that pie is in supporting our capital program about 60%. and the next highest use is that the orange category? they're at about 10%. and that is supporting environmental wildfire power and cultural and archeological services. >> next slide. now that's 60% on the capital side is pretty large. >> so how are we using that money? so the capital services categories include about half of that is going to rehabilitation or repair projects including our job managers and project controls managing those projects. the next largest group is our capital planning, risk

management and financial services. and the smallest slice is our strategic asset management planning services. >> next slide. so i'm going to say when we originally looked at starting this contract back in 2020 and writing it, we anticipate paid at a certain rate. we have been exceeding that usage rate. and there's a couple of things that has been causing that. we have had a significant increase in our capital plan spending to incur to address our aging infrastructure. pace of regulatory change has been pretty brutal for us including our wildfire management. and then there's skill and gap resources that we'll talk about in a second. >> so let's talk about i'm going to give you a few examples of actually how we're using this next slide. >> okay. so i have a map here. we're going to talk a little bit about our power transmission system.

so i know it's a little bit difficult to see in this map but over on the right hand side that is where both our kirkwood and home units are located right in the national forest, stanislaw national forest. and our transmission lines actually go all the way down to newark where we connect with pge and interconnect to the grid. >> so what's important about these assets? >> they're about 60 to 100 years old. and so we are going to do a condition assessment on these assets. >> the last time we did a condition assessment was in about in 2009. >> and we did an evaluation about 7% of our 700 and transmission towers were inspected. and why this is important is these assets do go through high fire threat areas two and three. we have a have about 45 miles in there. >> so maintaining these making sure they're reliable, making

sure that we don't have safety risk is very important. so we evaluate that during that project. next slide. >> now as i talked about, we use this contract also to address skill gaps. so we use have been using this contract for electrical maintenance planned development. and what we have electrical maintenance technicians that perform highly skilled technical work to maintain and upgrade a wide variety of a variety of electronic equipment. >> these are skilled 7318 electronic maintenance technicians. >> they are high in demand and we are a little bit under resourced given the pace of our technology changes that we're experiencing. >> under this contract we hired a retired supervisor supervising technician with extensive technical experience from a neighboring utility to develop a training program for

our staff as we complete capital projects and i'm talking about upgrades to our hydro generators, our substations and our transmission lines. we are training these electronic maintenance technicians to maintain the protection and monitoring systems associated with these assets. >> so we are reliable on the grid. okay. i thought these were great pictures of our staff on the right hand. >> the first picture on the right hand is a training hold a moccasin with our electrical engineers and our electronic maintenance technician. and then the picture on the far right is our internet technician trainee rebecca thompson performing a diagnostic online five. that's our transmission line radio frequency laboratory system upgrade project. next slide. >> so the final example i'd like to share with you is our risk tool development. we have developed a risk tool

that allows us to do risk based capital planning for targeted capital investments. the tool provides a quantifiable approach to likelihood and consequence of failure of assets and is used to prioritize our capital planning projects. >> so one thing i love about this tool also on the right hand side of the plot you see two grids one on the left and one on the right. and what that allows us to do is to be able to describe how our risk profile is being adjusted as we perform these capital projects. next slide. >> i think it's always important to look at how much we're spending on these contracts versus how much we are spending. our capital program in our operational program is in total. so let's put that in some financial this contract and financial context for you. >> we are spending we've spent

to date about 17.9 million of that only about 4% of that went to support our capital program funding program and then about 3% for operation and maintenance. so as you can see as percentage of our entire program, it's a pretty small percentage but the benefit is huge. >> the these contracts allow us to prior partner prioritize limited funding and address resource gaps for successful implementation of capital regulatory and facilities maintenance programs. next slide. so that is it. >> do you have any questions for me? thank you and welcome back to san francisco. thank you. >> item four approves amendments to four different engineering contracts with the puc, one with stantec, one with mott macdonald and berry as a joint venture one with aecom

and one with lee incorporated. we detail the budgets on page 17 of our report. you can see each contract is increasing from seven and a half to $13 million. these are funded by water and power utility revenues. and essentially what's happening here is that these are five year contracts. puc looked at the first year of spending and projected the remaining spending on the remaining four years of the contract at that level and kind of arrived at these numbers. so we recommend approval of item four. >> thank you. i appreciate the presentation for big project today that really includes the entire context of both the project itself and you know in ratio to what the construction management's in just management's and maintenance ports and other types of supports contracting ratio. that's really helpful from both

presentation today as i really appreciate it because i think in previous ones at times just seeing the actual percentage of amendments of these type of contract seems a significant increase. but in context by ratio and percentage which is less than you know than the usual 19% and just roughly only 4% or 3% of increase, it's a in ratio to the entire constructions or entire project. >> really help us help me understand what what we're dealing with here and i really appreciate the the thoughtful approach to increase these type of contracts. it's a much harder for us to incrementally increase as we understand the scope of the project than sort of going forward and and with a larger amount and and end up not being able to manage it well. >> so i appreciate that

thoughtfulness and those approach. i don't see any name on the roster and we will go to public comments on both item number three and four. >> yes. so if you have any members of the public have joined us today who wish to address this committee regarding these items three and four now is your opportunity. >> madam chair, we have no speakers seen a public commons public comment is now close. colleagues i would like to move items three and 4 to 4 with recommendation and a roll call please. >> and on that motion to forward both resolutions to the full board to the positive recommendation. if i start dorsey dorsey i member engardio and engardio i church in high chennai we have three eyes and motion passes and with that mr. clerk please call item number five. >> yes. item number five is an ordinance approving and waving competitive solicitation obligations for the port commission park lease hand loan for china basin park and for a management agreement for adjacent public and open spaces between the port and an affiliate of seawall lot 337

associates llc developer of the mission rock project bounded by china basin channel third street mission rock street and the san francisco bay. approving a port commission license with mission rock utilities inc, a private utility provider servicing the project and approving two port commission licenses and an absolving services agreement with pacific gas and electric company to facilitate gas service to private property in the project area and electric power service to the third street bridge pilot house and affirming the planning department's determination under the california environmental quality act and its findings of consistency with the general plan and the eight priority policies of the planning code. >> madam chair, thank you. and today we have a support. thank you chair jan good morning supervisors dorsey and and gardena wyatt donnelly wendell i'm a project manager with the port of san francisco

on the development team working on that mission rock project. >> i will move through slides quickly but i want to emphasize this has been a huge effort from the port office of economic and workforce development public works city attorney and our partner mission rock the mission mark partners, the developer of the space i started at the port six years ago. it was in the works prior to that just these agreements not the project itself that's over two decades but these agreements have been in the works for seven plus years so it has been a huge effort and we're very excited to be here and as culminating moment on phase one. so just the context of a mission rock phase one there are four buildings, two housing buildings, 537 units, two office buildings. one is currently occupied by visa the second has the warriors and is continued leasing. >> there's 52,000ft2 of retail

. it's a very exciting space. lots of activity happening. we were our team was actually just over there yesterday i got my first outside call chris which was amazing. highly recommend china basin park the waterfront park there expanded from the previous version and that's a big focus of today's presentation a district energy and non-potable black water system these are green on site district utilities to reduce water and energy use and then all the infrastructure so the infrastructure is complete. it is going through the city's acceptance process currently that was at land use on monday. the port is also accepting items. today's item is about the management of these spaces so the port is accepting china basin sparc china basin park and everything in there and then various nonstandard assets in the other spaces so you can see the orange spaces on this map that is what the port is completely accepting.

>> it's what we call pascoe's they're pedestrian oriented spaces that allow vehicles and then some access points the purple is going to be public right of way accepted by the city there are some nonstandard improvements in those spaces that the port is also accepting. >> so there are five different agreements associated with this item and the first is the china basin park lease and loan agreement. this is about the lease and management of china basin park. >> the second is the sales and open space management agreement on this referred to as the management agreement. this is the management of all the other space and then three licenses two with any one for gas lines two building f and g and one for an electric license to the pilot house that operates the bridge. there's a absolving services agreement associated with that and then a utilities license with mission rock utilities that allows the district utility system to access their lines for maintenance.

>> so the lease management and maintenance of port assets again, there are two different agreements here. the first is the china basin park lease and loan agreement. this allows for heavy programing and activation and also sponsorship of china basin park that sponsorship and programing is a key component to driving revenue at the park to help fund operations and make china basin park a world class premier park for the city and california to help cover the start up costs of the park as programing and sponsorship keeps get going, the port is providing a loan of up to $800,000 over the first three years up to $300,000 a year but it's capped at 800,000. we had talked about rec park about helping to facilitate this loan but the port is now going to fully fund that loan and bank park is not involved and today's approval does not

involve rec park in any way. >> the second agreement is the port open space management agreement that's for the casinos and other open spaces. this is a qualified management agreement that is a key component. >> the park is financed with taxable debt. the other spaces are financed with tax exempt debt in order to ensure the tax exempt debt qualifies with all irs rules it has to be a qualified management agreement. there's a $10,000 management fee plus reimbursements and then strict limitations on private uses to ensure that tax exempt debt follows all the irs guidelines. >> both agreements are 15 year initial term with five year three five year extension options and all the operation and maintenance is funded by master association dues. >> this is a stream line financial mechanism and the reason we're requesting the sole source is to allow the master association on the site to directly fund the operations

rather than using the special taxes which would have a delay and the management by the developer has long been in the works. it was part of the early thinking in mission rock and related to community feedback on what the community was looking for in terms of programing and activation of the park. >> the other set of agreements is those land rights and access agreements. this is around the maintenance of the utilities so it allows pge to maintain two gas lines in building g and building f that's the visa headquarters and very day the green residential building and an electric line through china base in part to the third street bridge pilot house. that electric line requires and absolving services agreement signed by the port and department of public works who's the customer there? they operate the pilot house that is required because the port is not allowed to use the city's franchise rights. so we have a term that ends essentially if that term were to end and pge were not allowed

to maintain its utilities, they could terminate service to prevent an accident or emergency without liability. >> but that's 66 years from now and we will not let that expire. we need to make sure that jeanie continues operating their electric lines and making sure they're safe. >> and then the second is a license for mru to maintain the district energy system and black water recycling system infrastructure again, this is also a 66 year term so i would request your positive recommendation of the item to the full board. i'm available for questions as well as representatives from the office of economic and workforce development and our partner mission rock and giants in this nonpartisan assurance. >> thank you very much. thank you. >> item five is an ordinance that approves several agreements related to the phase

one area of mission rock and approves agreements with a sociate affiliate of the developer to lease china basin park and maintain it to lease the non park open spaces within the phase one area and then licensing agreements with pge and mission rock utilities. >> the ordinance also provides waivers from the city's competitive procurement rules for awarding these agreements to work directly with the developer. the essentially what's happening here is that the park is completed the the original plan as part of this development was for the special taxes within the area to fund ongoing maintenance of the public assets delivered by the development. this is a multi phase development. phase one is complete. the remaining phases are on hold so the revenues right now are not sufficient to fund the

park maintenance alone. so this lease for the park includes a loan of up to $800,000 to basically fund that operating deficit for the next couple of years. i think the original plan was to use general rec and parks general fund budget to fund that loan. i believe i just heard that that's no longer the case and the part is yes, i that's correct. >> okay, great. the port will fully fully fund that one. i think that's appropriate. so the port will be funding the loan for mission rock. we did tell the budget for the park maintenance on page 30 of our report and there is one lingering policy consideration which is the waiver of competitive procurement rules to related to these agreements . i think that you know, absent a competitive process we don't really know if this particular developer is best suited to

operate the park and activate it. so for that reason we consider approval of item five to be a policy matter for the board. >> thank you. my question i'm trying to understand and i think we have a brief conversation about this oh me understand that the establishment of mission commons that is going to take over and basically be the tenants or potential tenants of this of this space and i am trying to read a draft or i'm trying to understand i should say and so please help me is that it seems like there there there's language around utility fees, there's language around termination rights and base rent and reporting which i appreciate but it seems like and there's also language around permitted use and events and programing it does not have

and so please help me understand and point me to the language that is clarifying that is that it doesn't seems to have a specific language indicating public access and be it like percentage of it or yeah so i think there's two pieces around public access here. the first is just hours of operation, the hours of operation i don't remember the exact section of the lease they are in i think believe it's under the permitted uses section are 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. with the bathroom operating 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. that's to ensure staff are there and cleaning so those are the minimum operating hours. they could obviously operate longer but we feel those are pretty robust know the park will not close, there's not going to be a fence around it overnight but they wouldn't be considered open hours. we want to really align this with how other parks operate

in terms of the maintenance standards and what the parks should feel like. those standards are aligned to rec park standards and the park will be scored on rec park standards so it should feel like a public park and the final is the programing piece. so there is going to be heavy programing and active ation but it's going to be a combination of you know game day events associated with giants but also community events. monday they had 18 regional libraries at the park to allow visitors to games to sign up for their library card that type of event. >> there's also a limit on the number of large events. so if you think about taking up a lot of space this isn't yoga in the park or a community meetup but like a concert or a big gathering those are limited to 100 days per year and they cannot take up the entire park so you can't take the entire park. i believe it's capped around 30,000 square feet. >> don't quote me on that but

and that's limited to a hundred days so you can't take over the whole park for the full year. you can have ticketed events, music festivals, you know a winter market those are some of the that ideas that are being contemplated that programing is going to build up over time. >> i think there's going to be iterations you'll see different ideas try it out but it will feel like an activated exciting public park. >> i see. so what you're saying is that it seems like you're referencing it's basically using the parks standards for maintenance and operation. is that what it is like hours or operations 6 a.m. to ten? >> yep. so hours of operations public access are 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.. >> i see that now the bathrooms are open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and then there's events but there are limitations which was restricted under the bccdc permit.

>> this is in the bccdc jurisdiction so that permit governs the amount of events that occur and the port will work with the tenant on programing and events on a regular basis. >> they submit a monthly update on their events that goes over a year ahead of time so we can understand the different events occurring while you're allowing fishing in this space. that's kind of awesome. got it. sorry, i just i just want to read to read through and understand what what what we're approving today. >> yes is and is got it and it's under your section of the lease of operating requirement and convenience generally or or yeah sorry okay thank you i appreciate the information it's and i'm i apologize vice chair dorsey thank you chair chen so i i it feels like i have been working

on this for a long time and actually back ten years ago i was serving on the san francisco democratic county central committee when this was going to ballot and i remember going through the ballot measure and i was marveling at the time how something this complicated and this involved could be so uncontroversial how much how how much support that there was for this and i believe it passed by 75% of the vote was property in 2015. >> i will always credit a lot of that to the san francisco giants organization and i think just the goodwill but also the thing that i always felt about this project is that the most important there's great design and great, you know, contractors but the most important thing that this project did for early on was listen to the community and really take feedback for something that started out of the gate with support. i'm comfortable with the waiver of the competitive bidding process because i think this is

something where i can see that there is an efficiency to be gained from having an affiliated service that provides it. i'm not and i am on board with the rec park funds but i don't get it. could someone and somebody could help me understand the rec park is funding yeah and it's not general fund. >> i am not our cfo and our cfo who structured that actually left the port. >> so we have our interim cfo as i mentioned that that was the original plan to help rec park facilitate that. i think it was related to appropriations. we found a way that the port can directly fund it right away so rec park is not involved at all. the approval today never involved rec park okay that was a separate agreement between the port and rec park that is no longer happening. there's no general fund dollars going here. >> the port is directly funding it. okay. i mean i do think this is obviously this is my district this is also the gateway to mission bay and i think this is

a really important thing back in just a couple of months ago during the nba all-star game when we had lunar new year, there was just so much going on and i think this in many ways was really a coming out party for an emerging neighborhood in mission bay and the chronicle at that time had done a story on this talking about how successful are the you know, given for example, the i think it was the tax revenue there was a 32% decline in many financial district and south of market neighborhoods at a time when mission bay was actually seeing sales tax receipts go up 36%. >> so at a time when i think people are really giving thought to public big ambitious public sector projects, i think the the book abundance just that just came out talked about high speed rail. it's like you know, there's a lot of things that aren't working. here's a project that is working and i really do want to

elevate that and lift that up and express my support for it. i love this neighborhood and i love running down there in the morning and it's just been great to see. i used to work actually on barry street so for four years i looked my window at my office this is 25 years ago looked out across the street when the the ballpark was being built. it is just great to see this neighborhood coming together so i'm happy to support this. >> thank you. thank you. and just a quick timeline question when is mission commons going to be mission what commons going to be establish and yeah, so it's in the process of being established the acceptance process and this item if recommended will go to the board next week and be proved that with the 30 day hold i think the x all the documents associated with this should be executed in early june so it will be established well ahead of then. >> so we're talking a couple a few weeks probably. >> understood. okay. thank you. and you have crinkle park just

recently opened. congratulations on that. and now you have this china basin park. it's looking looking good for the waterfront. so we appreciate this and i also appreciate the commitment of using port funding instead of our general fund from recreation and parks department . and so i do want to circle back if we may when you could submit the information about the mission rank commons once as a stablish of course. i appreciate that. thank you. and with that let's go to public comment on this item. >> yes, we're now opening public comment for any member of the public who wish to address this committee regarding this item number five now is your opportunity. >> madam chair. we have no speakers seeing our public commons public comment is now close. what is your will supervisor dorsey or vice chair dorsey i would hope to that we can i'd

like to make a motion to move this forward with a positive recommendation to the full board roll call please and on that motion by vice chair dorsey to forward this ordinance to the full board with a positive recommendation if i shared dorsey i dorsey i remember engardio and engardio i church can i can i we have three eyes the motion passes that mr. clerk please call items six through nine together yes item number six through nine are resolutions approving the following matters as they relate to the financing of multifamily rental housing projects item number six and eight are resolutions approving for purposes of the internal revenue codes of 1986 as amended authorizing the execution and delivery of a multifamily housing revenue note in one or more series for the purpose of providing financing for the construction of the projects both authorizing the execution of a regulatory agreement and declaration of restrictive covenants and authorizing the collection of certain fees approving modifications, changes and additions to the

documents ratifying and approving any action heretofore taken in connection with the back to back loans. the note and the project granting general authority to city officials to take actions necessary to implement the respective resolutions and related matters item number six is for a project located at 65 santos street and known as sunnyvale. oh sorry sunny dale hope s.f. block seven and additionally approving the forms of and authorizing the execution of the following a funding loan agreement providing the terms and conditions of the loan from the funding lender to the city and the execution and delivery of the note the execution of a borrower loan agreement providing the terms and conditions of the loan from the city to sunnydale block seven housing partners lp as the borrower in an amended and restated funding loan agreement which amends and restates the funding and loan agreement on and after conversion and an amended and restated borrower loan agreement which amends

and restates the borrower loan agreement on an after conversion item number eight is for a project located at 1652 sunnydale avenue known as sunnydale hope as a block nine and additionally approving the form itself and authorizing the execution of an indenture of trust providing the terms and conditions of the bonds financing agreement the use and distribute distribution of a preliminary official statement and or official statement and a bond purchase agreement item number seven and nine a resolution approving and authorizing the director of mossad to execute, amended and restated loan agreements with the following to finance the construction of multifamily rental housing developments for low income households and adopting that the loan agreement is consistent with the adoption mitigation monitoring and reporting program under the california environmental quality act. the general plan and the eight priority policies of the planning code item seven is with sunnydale block seven housing partners lp for a total

on loan amount not to exceed 18 million for sunnydale hope us off block seven and additionally authorizes and delegates to the director of mossad and or the director of property and their designees the authority to undertake any actions necessary to protect the city's financial security in the property and enforce the and affordable housing restrictions and item number nine as with sunnydale block nine housing partners lp for a total loan amount not to exceed 30.2 million for sunnydale hope us off block nine. >> madam chair, thank you. and with that we have mayor's office of housing and community development here. >> good afternoon chair sharon and vice chair dorsey and member and guardian. my name is jason liu, policy director for community development with the hope s.f. initiative within the mayor's office of housing community development. we're here today to usher in the next phase of affordable housing development at the hope st l site. >> next slide please as a

refresher st l is a part of the hope s.f. initiative which is a 20 year human and realistic capital commitment by the city to achieve reparations for the insidious impacts of past ongoing trauma, systemic and institutional racism and deep and persistent poverty hopeless efforts create by then-mayor gavin newsom in 2005 in response to the missing federal funding for san francisco's largest and most neglected public housing sites namely alice griffith hunter's view st l and potrero to address the site conditions hope as a force created to build replacement high quality public housing units in these communities as well as build additional affordable and market rate units chronic disinvestment in these communities over many decades resulting in aging obsolete infrastructure as well as neglected public housing units to ensure sandwell residents can enjoy brand new affordable replacement units, we are excited to enter this next phase of housing development at this moment i'd like to welcome up my colleague ryan vance

island senior project manager at most to present further on this item. >> thanks jason. the purpose of the four resolutions before you today is to approve affordable housing financing for sunnydale blocks seven and nine in order to begin construction in may. >> item number six authorizes the delivery of roughly $53.3 million in tax exempt and taxable bonds to be used to finance block seven. item seven approves the city loan agreement with block seven for a total loan of up to $18,050,000. item number eight authorize is the delivery of roughly $57 million in tax exempt and taxable bonds to be used to finance block nine. and finally, item nine approves the city loan agreement with the block nine sponsor for a total loan of up to $30.2 million. >> as shown here, senate block seven will be a new 89 unit affordable housing development

sponsored by mercy housing california and related california. as jason mentioned, the sunnydale hope a safe master plan seeks to redevelop the 775 unit sunnydale velasco public housing sites into a mixed income community of roughly 1770 new units with streets, infrastructure and open space. sunnydale block seven will be the fifth affordable housing development at the site of the 89 new units at block seven. 67 will be set aside as replacement units for existing sunnydale public housing residents earning 50% san francisco area median income. the remaining units will be lottery units restricted to those earning 70% area median income. the residential units mix is designed for families and includes four i'm sorry nine for bedrooms, 23 three bedrooms, 43 two bedrooms and 13 one bedroom units. seen here is the financing and schedule for block seven. total development costs are

expected to be roughly 107.6 million. the most learned before you today is for up to $18.05 million. this loan will be leveraged with the state housing and community development or cdw's asset program which was successfully applied for by the sponsors mercy and related. this $18.5 million in state affordable housing and sustainable communities or asec funds were awarded in august 2024 and approved by this board through an accept and expend resolution last october. the sponsor was able to secure private construction and permanent loan as well as housing tax credits. construction for block seven is expected to start in late may and finish in february 2027. moving on to block nine. block nine will be a new 95 unit 100% affordable building sponsored by related california and mercy housing california and will be the sixth affordable housing development at sunnydale hope s.f.. of the 95 new units 71 will be

set aside as replacement units for existing sunnydale public housing residents earning 50% san francisco area median income. the remaining units will be lottery units restricted to those earning 80% area median income residential unit mix again is designed for family and includes 11 four bedrooms, 23 three bedrooms, 51 two bedrooms and ten one bedroom units. >> total development costs for block nine are expected to be about 113.5 million. the most needy loan before you today is for up to $30.2 million. the city's loan will be leveraged by construction and permanent loan debt as well as housing tax credits. construction is expected to start in late may and finish by february 2027 roughly the same timeline as block seven. i'm joined today by representatives from mercy housing and related california and happy to answer any questions you may have. thank you. thank you.

>> item seven and nine our resolution means that approved loan agreements between the mayor's office of housing and the sunnydale developer. one is for $18 million and one is for $30.2 million. we detailed the uses of funds on page 36 of our report. the loans are primarily funded by general obligation bonds and the city's funding per unit for these 184 units is between 2 and $300,000 per unit. recommend approval of item 79. >> thank you. it's very exciting to see. i think the rendering is definitely bring homes to how important it is for for us to do this and i thank you so much for also getting the tax credit from the state's 51 million and all those all the just cobble up all the financing together. it's not a easy task. i'm really grateful for your work on this and let's go to public comment on all these items.

>> thank you. yes, we're now opening public comment for any member of the public who wish to address this committee regarding this item six through nine and that was your opportunity. >> madam chair, we have no speakers seeing no public comments public comments now close. >> i wanted to make sure though i do understand four item number six which is the revenue notes that it seems like there is an amendment proposed or there isn't an amendment. yeah and no no amendment. >> are you sure? because i do have an amendment propose amendments draft in front of us here that is seems like you want to strike out some languages throughout uh, i believe we accepted all

the clerks changes to the resolution. i wasn't aware that there were additional changes but i'm happy to. >> madam chair, to clarify, there was a discussion between myself and the department here regarding documents that were stated on the resolution but it was deemed not to be necessary there and i did request the or i did in conference with the department. they did accept the changes but it should be made as amended in committee. >> yes, i understand. thank you for agreeing to that and we will it looks like the amendment if i may colleagues is really on page seven lines 14 to 19 deleting the language of of that and then also page eight and nine for page eight

line one also striking the language that indicate permanent lender assignment. >> and then on page nine line three just adding the word and and striking out again the the term the permanent lender assignment is very straightforward. >> so with that i'd like to make the motion to first amend items six as i read out now and a roll call please. >> and on that motion to accept the amendments as just read into the record. vice chair dorsey and dorsey i member and guardrail and guardrail i church and i chennai there were three eyes a motion passes and then i would like to send the amended item six and item seven eight

and nine all to full board with recommendation. >> a roll call please. and on that motion to forward the resolutions and item six through nine to the full board of the positive recommendation item six as amended. vice chair dorsey dorsey i member and engardio and engardio i chair chan i chennai there are three eyes and motion passes thank you and mr. clerk please call item number ten yes item number ten is a resolution retroactively approving an authorizing the director of property on behalf of the department of homelessness and support of housing to execute a lease of property with lombard hotel group for use of the monarch hotel located at 1015 geary for a non congregate temporary shelter program with 102 units for a term of one year to commence april 1st 2025 through march 31st 2026 with an annual base rent of approximately 1.6 million any final payment of

100,000 upon surrender of the property confirming the planning department determination under the california environmental quality act and authorizing to direct our property to exceed any amendments make certain modifications and take certain actions had to not materially increase the obligations nor liabilities to the city to not materially decrease the benefits to the city and are necessary or advisable to effectively effectuate the purposes of the lease agreement or this resolution. >> madam chair, thank you and colleagues this is this item actually was a continuance from last week due to substantive amendments or so last week or the week before last and and so we we are have this discussion we have presentation so i don't have any other questions seeing no name on the roster as well we will go to public comment on this item yes we are now putting public comment for this item number ten if we have any members of the public who wish to address this committee.

>> madam chair, we have no speakers seeing no public comment. >> public comment is now close . we have amended this to one year lease and we had at the end of this is a final payments to the property owner of $100,000. so with that we'd like to move this item to full bore with recommendation and the roll call please. >> and on their motion to forward to the full board with a positive recommendation vice chair dorsey dorsey i remember guardrail and guardrail i church can i can i we have three eyes the motion passes and with that mr. clerk please call 11 items 11, 12, 13 and 14 together. >> okay. item numbers 11 through 14. >> item 11 is a resolution approving the first amendment to a grant agreement between the board services and the

department of homelessness and supportive housing for adult rapid rehousing extending the term for 24 months from june 30th 2025 for a total term of january 1st 2023 through june 30th 2027 increasing the agreement amount by approximately 9.3 million for a total not to exceed amount of approximately 19.2 million and authorizing h h to enter into any amendments or modifications to the amendment that do not materially increase the obligations nor liabilities or materially decrease the benefits to the city and are necessary or advisable to effectuate the purposes of the agreement. item number 12 is a fourth amendment to a grant agreement between the episcopal community services and the and h h for property management and support of services at the henry hotel extending the grant term by 36 months from june 30th 2025 for a total term of july 1st 2019

through june 30th 2028 increasing the agreement amount by approximately 9 million for a total amount not to exceed approximately 23.6 million. item number 13 is a second amendment to the grant agreement between five key schools and programs and hsa for the ardmore hotel for 60 transitional aged youth extending the grant term by 24 months from june 30th 2025 for a total term of june 1st 2021 through june 30th 2027 increasing the agreement amount by approximately 4.8 million for a total amount not to exceed the approximately 13.9 million and item number 14 approves a second amendment to the grant agreement between mission action inc, formerly known as the laura street community services and h. s h for emergency shelter extending the term for 24 months from june 30th 2025 for a total term of july 1st 2021

through june 30th 2027 increasing the agreement amount by approximately 8.5 million for a new total amount not to exceed approximately 18.5 million. >> madam chair, thank you. and with that let's go to like presentation one item at a time since all they have like be a report budget the legislative analyst report so presentation be our a report for each item. >> sounds great. thank you chair chan vice chair supervisor and guardian. my name is emily cohen with the department of homelessness and supportive housing. thank you very much for having me here on many items today the first item before you is a resolution to authorize the first amendment to the grant agreement between the department of homelessness and support of housing and abode services for an adult rapid rehousing program. >> the amendment would extend the term to june 30th 2027 to

align with our repor committee process the total not to exceed amount for this property or sorry excuse me for this project is 8.5 million i'm sorry let me just start again the we are going to increase the grant by 8.5 million for a new total not to exceed of 18.4 million and i will note that this is slightly different than what is in the resolution but we've submitted amendments to clarify a math error. >> this amendment was heard by the homelessness oversight commission and approved on march 6th. >> the this agreement funds abode to provide housing location, housing coordination, landlord liaison and subsidy administrative administration services to support adults leaving homelessness and moving into market rate housing with a 12 to 24 month subsidy and the

this the current version of the grant provides services and housing for up to 120 adults and will be expanded to serve 240 adults going forward . >> this grant was initiated as part of our effort to rehouse people out of the shelter in place hotels and we have continued it as we've wound those down to provide ongoing housing support for adults leaving homelessness of the people. a boat has served in the last fiscal year. the population really reflects who we see in the homeless community 42% of program participants are african-american and 33% are latino. this program has shown tremendous success. >> we're really proud of this program. 97% of the people referred to the program have been successfully matched to a unit and housed and nine 7% of those who have were housed remained

housed for at least 12 months. so really, really strong outcomes for this program. >> and in terms of the amendments. chair chen would you like me to read them into the record? great. thank you. the proposed amendments for the abode rapid rehousing contract include in the short title on page one line two should be updated to read $18,402,770 in the long title on page one line seven should be updated to read $8,511,165 for a total amount not to exceed 18,000,004 hundred and $2,770 in the body of the text on page two. lines ten and 11 should be updated to read increase the maximum expenditure by

8,000,511 $165 for a total not to exceed amount of $18,402,770 and these amendments actually bring the price down slightly so are non substantive and i'm happy to take questions after the report. >> thank you. item 11 is a resolution and approves a amendment to a grant agreement between h us h and abode which is a one of the rapid rehousing providers. rapid rehousing is time limited subsidies for people who are formerly homeless renting market rate units, residential units. the amendment extends the agreement through june 2027. we detailed the budget on page 46 of our report which shows the grant spending over the

next two years. primarily this grant is primarily funded by homeless gross receipts tax or prop c funds. there are no significant performance issues on the grant. abode is generally meeting the requirements of the grant including getting people into housing within 75 days. i would recommend approval of the resolution as amended. >> thank you. >> vice chair dorsey thank you. chair chen just wanted to ask as i was going through and you know that i am working on legislation that would extend expand our ability to offer recovery, housing and drug free options if somebody in a rapid rehousing situation identifies as being in recovery and wanting a drug free option, is there any anything in this program that would enable us to serve that person? >> absolutely. thank you for the question supervisor because this the

participants in rapid rehousing are living in apartments throughout the community. it is their standalone apartment so they are not necessarily in a building with other subsidized tenants they may or may not be. >> and so what they choose to do in their unit if they want their unit to be drug free, it you know they might rent a unit in a duplex or they might rent a unit in a 100 unit building. so it's not as controlled of an environment, right? it is a project based permanent supportive housing where everyone's sort of in the same boat. it might be kind of the same relationship i have with my next door neighbor. and so but so that said, everyone's unit can be managed independently but if somebody is in recovery the wraparound services that are provided through the contract can be very tailored to support them in that recovery. >> okay. so it's very customizable is is anybody from about here sorry my colleague omar from abode services i so i wanted to i will say that this is just

something that from west soma in particular there's two pch facilities one that's coming the 1174 folsom project but there's also city gardens. i want to with all due respect ,i'm going to support this but but i just have to share the perspective of many of the residents i represent. i don't think that there is a city contractor people are aware of that. they feel more adversarial about than about and that goes with 1174 folsom there was some late there was a community agreement that hap that played out about a drug free lease provision. it's you know i think we got to a better place with that but there was some delay in this project that the there was an advocate who was calling the neighbors hateful about this and i think they felt very differently because from their perspective this was a commitment that a city department made to them that

then a city contractor said we're not going to honor we i think we got to a better place with that but that there is a level of trust that really isn't there and i hope that about as a contractor where as that 1174 opens they'll be cognizant of that. the other one that is playing out i think this is a situation that's escalating is city gardens at eagle plaza. you know this is the beating heart of the leather lgbtq plus cultural district. it's where the eagle is located. it's where the leather pride flag flies. it's also unfortunately a place where now patrons of the eagle and many of the events down there are enduring homophobic slurs and have a lot of concerns about what's playing out from residents there. and i would hope there's there can be some sensitivity conversations about the community and being a good neighbor there. i understand that at the end of the month there's going to be a

meeting and this is personally important to me so i want to be there but i would hope that you would hear and maybe have some conversations with people from the soma west cultural benefits district and some of the neighborhood organizations about like i'm not aware of another contractor that is as much of a lightning rod for the neighborhood as about its right now. so i just wanted to you to hear that i don't know if you have any thoughts on it. >> well, thank you for that. >> i'm not over this the the new location that's being open but i am in charge of city garden's services. lot of things not property management. but i will say we did meet with that with the leather district community a couple of weeks ago and set up some things with them and the meeting to me at the end of it was positive. okay we have put some things in place at city gardens to kind of combat some of the things that are happening the violence, the the homophobic

slurs and all of those things we have that some we have security. we have security now that will be walking that will be outside and monitoring that to see who who's doing it. we've taken care of some of the other complaints that they've had which is like the dog on the sidewalks like i have a guy now as working in our building. he's doing this like bark on like being that he's taking people out with their animals showing them how to clean up after themselves. we're providing the the little doggie bags and stuff out. so we're trying to address a lot of those things now that we know about it. to be honest with you, i didn't know about most of it and i'm also new here to cover for san francisco so but yeah, we're trying to address a lot of that stuff now. >> okay. it's mostly i mean it's just especially now at a time when we're really the city is being ambitious about asking people to have these facilities in their neighborhood. i think we have to be more cognizant than ever about

winning public support and hearts and minds. i will say that, you know, there are some people who just don't want not don't want anything and that's that's life and that's going to happen in democracy by and large the folks in west soma i think understand this is these are neighbors. but i think there's also an expectation of how city contractors are going to be partners in this. >> so i just wanted to voice that. thanks. thank you. thank you. adam 12 oh yeah thank you church and we can move to item number 12 is that right? so item number 12 again emily cohen with the department of homelessness and supportive housing and i am before you today with a resolution to approve the fourth amendment to a contract to a grant agreement

between episcopal community services and the department of homelessness and supportive housing to continue operations of the henry hotel which is a permanent supportive housing site serving formerly homeless adults. we have proposed amendments to this agreement which would decrease the proposed term from three years to two years to better align with our multiyear procurement plan for our supportive housing portfolio and i can read those amendments into the record following the presentation. but the note i just wanted to note that the information presented on this slides reflect the the these amendments and are the most up to date the amend the fourth amendment for the henry hotel would extend the term by 24 months rather than the original 36 to a total term of july 2025 through june 30th 2027 and increase the total not to exceed amount by $5.8 million for a new total not to exceed

amount of $20.4 million. this proposed fourth amendment was reviewed and approved by the homelessness oversight commission at our march 6th meeting the henry hotel as operated by episcopal community services provide 121 units of supportive housing and in the last fiscal year that building served 127 individuals. so relative stability in that property ex property management ix provides sort of all of the services for the site so they do the property management, they hold the master lease and they provide the support services such as case management and housing stabilization, social events and community engagement events for the tenants at the property . and i do want to note that i'm joined by the team from episcopal community services today in case there are questions for them specifically some programmatic context. >> as i mentioned before, the

henry is a supportive housing site for adults without children. it had an occupancy rate of 97% which is above our average when we pulled the data at the end of march and the intent is to extend the existing agreement while we go through a repercussion of our entire supportive housing portfolio which should move forward in f y 2526 the population being served at the henry is really indicative of the adult population experiencing homelessness. 34% of the community is african-american, 20% is latino and 37% is over the age of 55. and that's really what we're seeing pretty consistently as the homeless population ages. and as i mentioned earlier, we do have a proposed amendment to the amount added in the resolution before you today and a copy of the red line has been shared with the clerk

and the chair would you like me to read into the record? great. so the proposed amendments for the henry hotel within the short title on page one line two should be updated to read 20 million $400,596 in the long title on page or excuse me page one line six should read 24 months line seven should be updated to read through june 30th 2027 line eight should be updated to read $5,808,651 for amount for an amount not to exceed $20,400,596 and then the body of the resolution on page three lines 14 and 15 should be updated to read extend the term by 24 months through june 30th of 2027 and by increasing the

maximum expenditure by $5,808,651 for a total not to exceed amount of $20,400,596 and after the bailey report i'm happy to take any questions. item 12 is a resolution approving a amendment to a grant agreement between h. s h and episcopal community services. this grant funds x to operate the henry hotel on sixth street which provides 121 units of permanent supportive housing for adults. we summarize the budget on page 52 of our report. this grant is primarily funded by the general fund and for the two year extension that's being proposed by the department the total grant value is $20.4 million.

>> there were excess generally complying with the grant requirements and objectives with one exception that was noted in the agency is most recent program monitoring which noted that the rent collection rate for tenants was 47% which is less than the goal of 90%. we also note as a policy consideration that this site is kind of a legacy site. it's it actually was it began prior to the formation of the department of homelessness and supportive housing in 2016 and the city continued to fund it over the past you know, ten plus years the cost per unit for the legacy sites and h. s h is age portfolio is about 30 to 50% less than the sites that they've recently funded through there. they've expanded pch by about

3000 units over the past couple of years using the one time property dollars and some of some of the difference in the funding level is due to the population served or the building size. but some of it is really just due to the city fund in a lower level of service and the legacy sites. >> so you know this grant has been extended by two years so h s h can re procure that pch portfolio. >> that's i think an opportunity to really kind of think strategically as a city about whether what the right funding level is for pch. i may it may require you know to be programmatically and fiscally sustainable and may require lowering costs on existing sites or increasing the cost of legacy sites such as this one to make sure that they are meeting all the maintenance obligations and providing the level of service that the city provides

at other pch sites so that they clients are successful. but we do recommend approval of this resolution as amended. >> thank you. >> i think you know of course aside from physically touring some of these legacy sites if possible, i think it would make sense from time to time that during these presentation to include interior photos just kind of help us understand premier supportive housing condition and in a bit more details on the services provided onsite so that we can have a comparison of something like a henry hotel or other type of permanent like the newly more newly acquire or develop permanent supportive housing sites and how do they vary both on a service level and dollar spends? i think so that we can have a better understanding of if if the newer sites are costing us

anywhere between 30 to 50% more in spending. i'm sure you have your reason but help us understand is it the condition of it or like because they're just brand new or it's like or the size of it of the units and things like that and and clearly i think that for this one too though is that if you're consistently if they are consistently only collecting 47% rent, what is then the realistic expectation these are individuals without children living at this site. so kind of help us understand better about the services, the level of services they need and what can be realistically expect from them in terms of rent like to be collected from these individuals. thank you chair chan appreciate the question and i think you know what mr. minard said

around creating parity in our system is a big part of the goal with our revpar commit because we have these legacy sites that we've inherited that have been operating for many, many years. the primary reason that the cost is different is largely because the rent is just much cheaper, right? were the master leases were executed many years ago and some of them are much less expensive. city owned properties have a much higher insurance standard required by locals, by city law for city owned property than something we were to lease. so there and then of course the size of the building dictates the exact number of staff that need to be onsite etc. so there are a number of different factors. >> we have made efforts in the recent years and you know thank you to this body for allocating the resources to do this to create more parity in the staffing ratios. >> so for adult supportive housing we aim to have a 1 to 25 case manager to resident ratio whereas like in youth supportive housing that's 1 to

20 so naturally youth supportive housing which we'll talk about at the next item is going to be more expensive because we recognize that those tenants need a little bit more support and we do have ranges within our supportive housing from a lighter service model and i think the henry would be an example of that two sites that have onsite nursing and sites that have much more clinical care and that's one of them. >> i think that's an important strength in our system not everyone experiencing homelessness or everyone living in supportive housing needs the same thing but we definitely need to be very strategic about how we match people to the resource to make sure the building that they're being placed in has the right level of care from them and that's a big part of the work that we're undertaking right now. >> you know what i also am finding just through our conversation about permanent supportive housing and when i talk to nonprofit houses they they to say use the term permanent supportive housing. but what i have recognize is

slightly different is that what they really meant sometimes is that there's a long term subsidize housing for like rent rental subsidies but in the context of oftentimes with what you with the department of homelessness supportive housing when we talk about permanent supportive housing in my mind goes towards social services meal delivery or like clinical like you know treatments or not treatments but but clinical services on site as well and in a more in depth service referral on sites provided so love to learn just kind of more about when we start to look at the inventory sorry yeah how our de tier i'm not asking them to be color coded but but somehow help us understand the tier system of permanent supportive housing that we're funding. >> absolutely. so and just to clarify all permanent supportive housing by definition is long term subsidized housing without time limit where the tenant pays 30%

of their income towards rent and then from there we layer on services and that can be everything from case management during the day and around the clock staffing desk clerk maintenance staff and such to like you said there are tiered and then we have how much more highly clinical housing programs and then of course varying cost based on the type and they vary on they vary in terms of the population that they serve. one question you brought up before that i forgot to answer was about the rent collection. this is a systemic challenge. you know every tenant in supportive housing is has a lease and is responsible for paying rent. their rent is based at 30% of their income just as it is in almost all subsidized housing programs and about 47% in this building are paying their rent. >> this was not an issue before the pandemic. i mean you always had someone who didn't pay their rent sometimes just like anywhere else. but it was not a sort of systemic issue with the

eviction moratorium we did see a huge spike in tenants not paying rent and that has created sort of a culture change within supportive housing that is very, very hard to combat. we do not want to be evicting people right that is our last resort and so we have really tapped into homelessness prevention resources to try to compensate for some of the rent that is missing and get people caught up with the understanding that then they will agree to continue to pay rent. but the loss of the revenue from tenant not tenants, not contributing is impactful for the bottom line of our supportive housing providers as they really you know for one individual tenant might not be a lot of money but for 120 people over the course of the year it does really, really impact the ability of these organizations to to meet their financial responsibilities. >> then what is the mechanism or what are we trying to do right now? right. so one, we're trying a number of things including proactive advertising, proactive

engagement, talking to folks at community meetings, reminding them about their rent. we have just expanded our rep pay program, our third party rent and payment program so that anyone in support of housing can enroll. we can't force anyone to but if they want to enroll in the program then their rent will be automatically paid before they get the their check back and that is a great way of stabilizing tenants and ensuring that folks are paying. >> so that is now an option for anyone in support of housing who wants to enroll and then we are also working with our homelessness prevention programs as well as most of these to tap into eviction prevention resources to make the you know, to provide the tenant with the back rent, to pay the landlord to support the organization running the programs but also the behavior needs to then change and it's not something where you can kind of keep going to the well because we do need those prevention resources for

everybody in the community. >> thank you. i'm yeah, i mean i think especially for those that really are sick or you know can't work or whatever it is that happened to them that they will not then we are able to support them to stay house if their income is zero then their contribution is zero. >> right is based on their income. yeah. got it. thank you. and with that let's go to the next item. >> hello again emily cohen department of homelessness and supportive housing and i am before you today with a resolution to authorize the department of homelessness and supportive housing to enter into the second amendment to a grant agreement between h. s h and five keys schools and programs for the operation of the art ma hotel. and i'm joined by brandi marshall from five keys should there be any questions for her ? >> the proposed amendment would

extend the term of the agreement by two years for a total term of june 30th 2021 through june 30th 2027 and increase the total not to exceed amount by $4.9 million for new total not to exceed of 13.9 million. the proposed second amendment of the agreement was reviewed and approved by the homelessness oversight commission on march 6th. >> the art ma hotel is a 60 unit permanent supportive housing building for transitional or aged youth. so a little bit different than the last project. this is a younger population and as you'll note a smaller footprint only 60 unit building which accounts for the higher per unit per night costs five keys runs all aspects of this program including tenant lease management building maintenance repairs on state staffing

through their property management as well as providing the support services which are largely focused on education and employment for young folks housing retention and then referrals and leverage of bee health and behavioral health services and this is all done through a 1 to 20 case management ratio. >> the art master so the are is designed for young adults and in the last fiscal year house 39 transitional h-2 and actually 25 older adults who had entered the program as transitional aides to youth but grew up a bit while they were living there. this is 100% our city, our home funded and again the extension here is designed to align with our full repurchase of our permanent supportive housing portfolio and you'll see of the 64 people housed in this program in the last fiscal year ,the population is very consistent actually with what

we see among young adults experiencing homelessness. so 42% african-american and 27% latino and draw your attention to 33% lgbt. q the lgbtq population is highly overrepresented among young people experiencing homelessness and it's very reassuring and this is what we want to see the art. ma serving this population and making sure that these folks are all getting inside of and i'm happy to take any questions after the bell every part item 13 is a resolution that approves a grant amendment between h. s h and five keys. the amendment extends the agreement through june 2027. this is for permanent supportive housing on alice street for 33 hours straight for 57 transitional age youth

the five keys is meeting the objectives and requirements of the grant. summarize the budget of the grant on page 58 of the report you'll see the total contract value is $13.9 million. this is primarily funded by homelessness. gross receipts tax recommended pro of item 13 thank you. i again i think you know as mentioned let's let's let's move forward with these things with these with these a grant agreement again with some photos on sites i would appreciate it and just looking at google map it's of this of the building and surrounding makes sense but i also appreciate having somewhat understanding the condition of of these hotels and living in in terms of interior will

really help will be really helpful i know that if we can have them after even after on just on the file after today i would really appreciate that. let's go to item 14. last but not least, again emily cohen with the department of homelessness and supportive housing and i am here today to request approval for an a second amendment to our grant agreement between the department of homelessness and supportive housing and mission action formally known as door street community services to continue services at the door street shelter we call the delores street shelter two on venice and phones. >> so the term the new term of the agreement would extend to june 30th 2027 and that's a two

year extension and increase the total not to exceed amount by 8.5 million for a new total not to exceed amount of 18.5 million. this proposed amendment was reviewed and approved by the homelessness oversight commission on march sixth. >> the dolores street program currently offers 91 beds of overnight emergency shelter. this is one of our last shelters that actually still operates just in the overnight hours as it is housed at a church that has other daytime or it's co-located with a church that has other daytime activities. mission action has operated this program since i believe the 80s and provides bilingual and culturally responsive emergency shelter services to a largely latino community in the mission district. the average cost of the shelter is below our average because it is not 24 seven operating and you'll see it's 90 or $74 per night including meals.

the putting meals and onsite support services for the guests . as i mentioned, the program has been in operation since the 1980s, since 1982 and in the last fiscal year served 309 adults. this again is an adult shelter no children. it is also home to jazz's place which is the nation's first lgbtq shelter which has a separate dorm on the property in the last fiscal year or sorry in this coming fiscal year dolores is completing a shelter expansion project that has been long underway and we're really excited to be able to expand capacity at the site to 152 beds this given the cultural responsiveness and linguistic capacity at the shelter, it's not surprising to see that the population served

here is 54% latina and 31% lgbtq too really reflects i think the needs of the community and the mission to make sure i don't have any amendments no amendments on this one. i'm happy to take questions after the report and i also want to note that i'm joined by my colleagues from mission action here in case there are provider specific questions. item 14 is a resolution that approves an amendment to the grant agreement between h. s h and mission action inc. this is a charter and the mission and the grant agreement has been extended by two years through june 2027. the shelter provides 91 beds. there's a planned expansion to 50 to 152 beds and fall of 2025. so the grant budget includes funding for that expansion as

well as funding for the new operating cost of those beds. we detail those amounts on page 63 of the report. we did not find significant performance issues with the provider and this grant funded primarily by the general fund we recommend approval of item 14. >> thank you. i don't have any other question as well. >> i think we'll continue these conversation about there's definitely a need for emergency shelter. i think let's let's think i think it's interesting and i would like to learn more about just the ratio again and help me remember the ratio. i think you have done that in presentation before. you know in terms of emergency shelter and transitional housing and permanent supportive housing and and how do we what what do we have as

inventory in our system? i don't see any other name on the roster. we're ready to go to public commons for all these items. >> yes we are now opening public comment for any members of the public who wish to address this committee regarding any of the resolutions as our items 11 through 14 now is your opportunity madam chair we have no speakers seating no public commons public comment is now close colleagues i would like to move first the item 11 to first make the motion to amend item 11 and 12 as provided by department of homelessness in support of housing and a roll call please. >> and on that motion to amend the resolutions and items 11 and 12 reducing the amounts associated by the department of

homelessness and supportive housing vice chair dorsey dorsey i remember engardio and engardio i church can i can i we have three eyes and motion passes and with that i would like to move the amended items as well as the remaining items which is item 13 and 14 to full board with recommendation and the roll call please. >> and on that motion to forward the resolutions in items 11 through 14 to the full board to the positive recommendation 11 and 12 as amended vice chair dorsey dorsey member guardian and engardio i church and i cannot we have three eyes and motion passes and with that mr. clerk do we have any other items before us today i madam chair that concludes our business. >> the meeting is adjourned

. >> you're watching golden gate adventures with lightweight horses. all this. in this episode he's exploring golden gate, hong kong. >> hi, i'm michael baltazar and you're watching golden gate adventure, a show that highlights san francisco's urban outdoors. today we're in golden gate park. we're going to highlight a few

of the activities they have here. first up archery. >> let's shoot from carrow road. we're here at 47th and fulton the archery range here at golden gate park and i'm here with my friend jim who is an expert at archery. he's going to give us a few tips. first off, let's see. i think safety is really important. that's an excellent idea. so number one, just with anything like archery, you want to make sure that everything is pointed at the target. so once we have an arrow on the bow we wouldn't want to point it at somebody. >> we would always want to make sure that what we're doing is pointed down range toward the target. so number two is the number one is for mostly for protecting other people. protecting yourself is important too. so you always want to use a tab or a glove like the one you're wearing for finger protection when drawing and releasing the

string. also our armed guards keep the string from hitting our arms on the release. what we're using today is a very modern and contemporary recurve bow. so compounds long bows re curves. >> there are asian asiatic bows mongolian. japanese. turkish. syrian. very distinctive shapes totally different flavors of archery just based on them. let's try this. all right. >> so archery is all about

accuracy as you try to hit the target. the sports reads go way back to hunting in battlefields but today it's evolved into something recreational and competitive. this ranges in a chill spot tucked into a peaceful wooded area on the west end of the park. >> this is a lot of fun guys whether you're just starting out or already a pro it's the perfect place to practice. there are well-maintained target bales at different distances all surrounded by tall trees and lush greenery creating a calm atmosphere. that was awesome. i think what can't get better than that, right? >> why don't you go for the ranges run by volunteers and it's totally free to use but you'll need to bring your own gear or rent some nearby. locals and tourists love it whether they're honing their skills or just wanting to try something different outdoors in the city. oh that was a bad one. archery can be very humbling and not too bad.

this one's a little high because that was my second shot. i couldn't really i didn't really feel that one as well. but once i got it honed in i think yeah i got one in the ten. so let's go that way. oh wow. farther back. oh, left again. just left. oh, just to the left. that's the right elevation. right. i saw that. you got it. okay. glacier yeah, i visualize it. yeah, right. >> the last i get i was so close i looked so get in the air. >> all right, next time. that's why i got to come out here practice. that was very exhilarating. i love archery, man tim, why do you love archery? what's not to like? you can do what we just did which was spend time together for exploring it and working on it. you can also have a blast going

off into the woods by yourself. so all of the you know this range any range you can do it with friends you can do it by yourself. >> you can get the experience you want from it. there's a lot of fun and i think you for being my buddy on this archery. that's my pleasure. it's good to see him like okay, thanks. now we're going to go rolling. >> now we're at the blue heron boathouse. we can add two different kinds of boats. there's actually a pedal boat and a rowboat. i think we're going to go get a rowboat. let's go get on the lake. >> time to rowboat. boat. boat, boat surrounded by greenery. this manmade lake is a nice little escape from the busy city. the key thing is to get into a rhythm and move in sync with the water and your boat. it can have a calming meditative feel while still giving you a serious workout.

all right. how cool is this? who? >> look how big that tree is. it's like nice and peaceful out here. i'm the only one. that means i think people really need to come out here actually really calm out here. as you navigate the lake, you'll pass by strawberry hill ,an island in the middle of the lake with a waterfall trails and tons of wildlife like ducks, turtles and birds. >> strawberry hill is connected by two bridges to the park. and it's the highest point in golden gate park. it includes huntington falls, a 110 foot tall artificial waterfall that feeds into the lake.

there's also the chinese pavilion, a gift from san francisco's sister city. taipei, taiwan. it's a charming place to rest and take in the views. ooh, that was a workout for the arms. i love boating. that's a lot of fun getting out on the lake. but now i got to work at the lakes. let's go skate. where? at this game place on six and. beautiful day. i think i'm going to rent some rollerblades. >> let's get rolling. good job. >> skates. skates. if you're looking for a fun way to spend a sunday afternoon, check out the skiing place. it's near sixth avenue in

kennedy drive and has a great surface that's perfect for practicing or hanging out with fellow skaters. oh man. >> this is, uh this is very nostalgic for the millennial and me 90s. playing with my boys some street hockey. i haven't ridden blades in a while but it's going to be like riding a bike. all right. >> let's go. here. >> i'm here at the free sundae roller disco party from noon to 5 p.m.. >> the godfather escape brings us mobile dj unit and plays groovy tunes for you to skate here. and if you need skates no worries. rentals are available nearby from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the weekends starting at just $12

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